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PRN | 9845 | ||||
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Site or location name | Liverpool Street Station | ||||
Summary | |||||
Description | Liverpool Street Station was struck by three bombs on 13 June 1917; the date of the first daylight bomber raid on London. On this day 20 Gotha GI. V bombers of Kagohl 3 dropped over 100 hundred bombs on the capital, killing 162 people and wounding a further 432; the highest death toll from a single raid on the UK during the First World War The bombs started to fall on Liverpool Street Station at 11:40 hrs, killing 13 people and wounding many others. The first bomb failed to explode, the second struck Platform 9 and the final bomb hit a passenger train that was about to depart the station. | ||||
Monument Type | BOMB SITE;BOMB SITE | ||||
Desgination | None | ||||
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Country | ENGLAND | ||||
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Site Location | Liverpool Street Station | ||||
Postcode | EC2M 7QH | ||||
Map Reference | NGR: TQ3319181725 (533191, 181725) | ||||
Condition/Threat | |||||
Condition (Date) | Uncertain (22-05-2017) | ||||
Source | |||||
Morris, Joseph (1925) German Air Raids On Great Britain 1914-1918. S Low. London. | |||||
ANN39898 (2016) Liverpool Street air raid 13 June 1917: . Imperial War Museum. London. https://livesofthefirstworldwar.iwm.org.uk/community/3053 | |||||
Administration | |||||
Recorded By (Date) | Chris Kolonko - Home Front Legacy | ||||
Copiled On | 22-05-2017 | ||||
Last Updated | 22-05-2017 |